Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Applied Psychologist, LD CAMHS
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- Mental health services for children and young people
- Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, with the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
We currently employ over 4,000 people and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Whatever your role, working in a NHS Foundation Trust, like ours, is a demanding and extremely rewarding experience. Knowing that every day you can help to make a positive difference to someone’s life is a very powerful feeling. We know that our Trust runs on this desire to help and support people, and our Trust vision expresses this. Our vision is to improve health and wellbeing for everyone, especially our colleagues to achieve the best possible work/life balance.
We proudly offer supportive, inclusive and family friendly employment and flexible working policies. We have a wide range of professional services and employee networks to help our colleagues be at their best - and find support if they need it. To find more about our staff benefits, please visit our website: blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and ethnic minority candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Black Country Healthcare we recognise and value all forms of knowledge and expertise, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification or criteria in the job description/person specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For further supporting information to help you apply for this role please see documents attached under ‘Additional documents’.
Job overview
We are pleased to offer this opportunity for you to develop your career within our friendly, multi-disciplinary LD CAMHS team. The team is led by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and supported by an Assistant Psychologist with links to the wider network of Clinical Psychologists in other LD-CAMHS teams across the Trust.
The LD-CAMHS provides services to children and young people with moderate to severe learning disability who are experiencing a range of mental health needs and/ or displaying significant behavioural distress, and their families. The LD-CAMHS team is part of the wider CAMHS service and has good links with the Children and Young people’s Intensive Support Team, Key Worker team, Crisis Home Treatment Team and the Disabled Children and Young People’s Team.
BCHFT are committed to investment in our Psychology staff so you will have access to a psychology specific dedicated CPD budget to support your professional growth.
Psychological therapists throughout all our learning disability services have good links with the local Doctoral Psychology courses at the Universities of Birmingham.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Applied Psychologist in Walsall CAMHS you will have a balanced job plan which meets both the needs of the service and your own development. This will include contributing to initial assessment clinics which will be robustly supported through post assessment multi-disciplinary case discussions. In addition, you will be providing formulation driven, evidence-based psychological therapies. You will also be care co-ordinator for some young people, involving working with the family and wider professional network. You will contribute psychological thinking to the work of this busy, friendly multi-disciplinary service and will supervise the clinical work of assistant psychologists, trainees and other professionals.
Working for our organisation
Walsall CAMHS is part of Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and is a friendly and busy service. Walsall CAMHS and partner agencies are currently in the process of aligning with the i-Thrive framework to ensure timely, responsive and needs-led interventions for the children and young people of the Black Country.
Staff that work in Walsall CAMHS describe a supportive multidisciplinary environment. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from the diverse range of communities with which we work. We are based Canalside, where there is parking on site.
The Trust is dedicated to ensuring that staff feel valued. Staff are also able to access a range of wellbeing services (e.g. counselling, advice and guidance) and vibrant staff networks including BAME, LGBTQIA+ and lived experience.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached documents to view the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
Watch our Video, 'Welcome to Psychology in the Black Country: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6HJ-gSdWvA
Person specification
Essential & Desirable
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS.
- HCPC registration as an Applied Psychologist with Chartered Status
- Experience of working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service line
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Registration with BPS
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nadine Sidaway
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Walsall LD CAMHS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01384 324 689
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